You only have to “lower” yourself if you actually want to be served something actually approximating what you wanted/ attempted to order.
For the dozenth time in this thread, there is a difference between ordering something that can easily be translated to the shop-talk, and ordering something that doesn’t translate to the shop talk. Yes, you can order a small fry at Mickey D’s and they’ll give you the smallest fry they have. And you can order a small coffee at Starbucks instead of a “tall” and they’ll give you the smallest coffee they have, because they know not everyone one knows or will use the Starbucks bullshit sizing (“tall, grande, vente”). BUT in both cases, “small” still means “small.”
That’s different from “I’m ordering something that isn’t on your menu and I actually could mean one of any number of things you do serve.” So it’s not like ordering a “small” at Mickey D’s, it’s like ordering a “burger” at Mickey D’s and then getting mad that the minimum wage cash register jockey doesn’t know which of the 90 burgers they serve you actually want.
If you won’t “lower” yourself to order off the freakin’ menu – or at least order in a way that is intelligible to the person manning the counter – then by all means take your righteous indignation and your money right back out the door.
that was some helpful counter person :rolleyes: What turned me off of CSC is the incessant mixing on the stone. smashing and smearing and scraping the ice cream into a melty mushy ball only to knead it again and again. Enough already I’ve lost my appetite.
Dood! I’m just glad this thread led me to their website and, by extension, GETS ME A FREE FREAKIN’ ICE CREAM FOR MY BIRTHDAY!! Anything that costs me nothing and is sweet to boot, is fine by me. Thanks man!
[ ::: whistles happily ::: ]
Now, all that said, I completely agree with Cheesesteak on the breakdown of how things should have worked for either side. I mean, if I’m really hankering for something, I’d tap dance in a beanie hat and a pink tutu to get what I wanted. So having to say “I’d like the Explotion Playboy Posin’ Satin Creamy Chocolate Woo Woo,” no problem. It’s my experience after all. And I’d have no problem remembering that not all ‘drones’ are equal and my giving them the benefit of the doubt (unless they’re complete assbrats) makes me less likely to rant in the pit.
FREE ICE CREAM ON MY B-DAY!!!
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but wanted to let you know I’m e-mailed this link to my eldest who, home from her 1st year at college, just started at CSC last week. I’m interested in hearing her take on the discussion, and will share the thrilling insights I anticipate.
Our family is - um - quite fond of ice cream, otherwise known in our household as “The grand elixir of life.” Last night when I looked there were probably 5 pints of Dove and Hagen Daz (sp?) and a quart of Edy’s in the freezer - and it looked like stocks were getting a mite low.
Remembering some of the criticisms of CS ice cream, I asked around the dinner table. Purely anecdotal personal opinion follows, but my wife expressed the firm opinion that CS was extremely good ice cream. I readily acknowledge that my frozen dairy palate is nowhere near as refined as hers.
I just clicked on the link to the Original Creations, and I must say, I might just have to completely blow my diet during our vacation this week. That All Lovin’ No Oven, despite the stupid name, is calling to me.
Whenever I see these American sphincter bursting raves about minor infractions I wonder how you guys travel overseas without having a stroke. You are so tightly wound.
(Concerning the OP: When I’m feeling grouchy, I find that ice cream at home works better than going to a place that annoys me–just so I can annoy someone else.)
Better yet, plan a trip around it. Go to Brenham, TX for the ice cream festival and see what five generations of making some of the best ice cream in the country has done for the quality of the local homemade ice creams. If you’d like to sample some Blue Bell you can get four half-gallons delivered anywhere in the country, overnight, for ~$89. It’s really good, and cheaper than airline tickets, but even their super-premium flavors(with brown rimmed cartons) pale in comparison to the homemade stuff which has five generations worth of tribal knowledge put into it.
Blue Bell is entirely responsible for me having been a fat kid. It is either pure heaven or pure hell, depending how you look at it. I’ve learned to watch my weight, but there is a half-gallon of mocha almond fudge in the freezer right now. It doesn’t help that I’ve moved to within a 45 minute drive of Brenham either.
An ice cream festival? You have no idea how close you are to influencing the destination of the Dinsdales’ next family trip! It is not at all uncommon for us, when we find ourselves in a foreign town/state, to ask folks at the hotel or elsewhere where the best local ice cream is. Has led to had some wonderful experiences.
We often will eat only 2 main meals while traveling, to make us feel better about our near-daily ice cream fixes!
I’ve done it, and I’m planning to do it again. My family went to the festival when I was a child. What I remember most was the variety of ice creams. The jalepeno ice cream was the most shocking. The most gratitious was the twinkie-flavored ice cream. It was good though. I never thought I would get sick of ice cream, but there were probably sixty or eighty entrants into the competition(or maybe it just seemed like that to my eight or nine year old self, in any case there was a LOT of people showing off their homemade ice cream) and even a spoonfull of each was way too much. IIRC there was a flat fee and you got a bowl and spoon and could get a smalll scoop from each of the entrants as long as their supply held out. You could email the organizers and find out. Beware though or you could end up like this poor guy from Illinois.
It should be noted that although Homemade Vanilla is Blue Bell’s most popular flavor, it is a gold rim flavor. Blue Bell categorizes their flavors by rim color. Silver is plain flavors without premium ingredients or additives. Gold is premium flavors, but without premium add-ins(like high quality chocolate chips or brownies), and the Brown rim is premium ice cream and premium add-ins.
I took my wife to Brenham not long after we got married(a detour on a longer trip). We took the factory tour and sampled their fudge brownie flavor before it was released generally. We’re mulling over planning a trip to the 2008 festival now the kids are old enough to enjoy it.
Heh, come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the rim color code used in their advertising or marketing. I leaned about it from my father, and he could have been wrong. I’m not seeing it on the website, but it bears out on the grocery store shelf. I found a reference to an old FAQ(no longer on the website, but apparently it once was) which says
Aw, see, now you made me go to Blue Bell’s site, where I found out that Caramel Sundae Crunch is back in the rotation…this is not good news for my waistline…
I’ve lived in Blue Bell country before for a number of years, and have eaten my way through many, many bowls of Blue Bell ice cream. But now? I can get Turkey Hill, which beats Blue Bell hands down in any taste contest imaginable. It is just heavenly ice cream. I’m currently eating my way through a half gallon of their Fried Ice Cream, which is a limited edition flavor consisting of cinnamon ice cream with chunks of cinnamon sopapillas and tostadas in it. I have had the strongest compulsion I’ve ever had in my life to sit down with the carton and a spoon, it’s THAT good.
There’s a Coldstone right up the road. Why would I bother to go there and pay their ridiculous prices when I can get a half gallon of Turkey Hill Fried Ice Cream on sale for $2 a half gallon???
Fair enough - but the problem is that Cold Stone’s got a number of similar flavors that are different enough a customer might complain if they got it wrong. For example - they’ve got French Vanilla, Vanilla Bean, and Sweet Cream ice cream. I’m not picky - I might think any of those with cookie chunks would make a good cookie dough ice cream. You might not, though, and you might think one of those is totally unacceptable - that’s why the lady at the counter wanted you to specify.
Mint, admittedly, should probably have been a bit easier.
Anything that costs me nothing and is sweet to boot, is fine by me. Thanks man!
And I’d have no problem remembering that not all ‘drones’ are equal and my giving them the benefit of the doubt (unless they’re complete assbrats) makes me less likely to rant in the pit. 